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Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...
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focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …
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This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …
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-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is …
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individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …
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effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …
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involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of … completed duration is the negative effect of continued joblessness on reservation wages apparent. For its part, the completed …
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